Tuesday, February 26, 2013

A Common-Sense Approach to Getting Our Government Back on Track

Rip out the cameras from the floor of the House and the Senate. Ban audio and video recordings/broadcasts from the Congress on the pain of death by something truly nasty.

I think that one of the worst decisions in modern history was to allow C-Span to put cameras in both chambers. As a result, we've moved from rational debates to bloviations that are being done for the cameras and the folks at home. It's sort of a contest to see Who Can Be the Biggest Jerk.

Sure, sometimes there can be inspiring moments, such as when Sen. Joe McCarthy was finally exposed as being a weasel who built his career on character assassination:



But those noble moments are now few and far between. It might not get those clowns back to work if we took the cameras out. But I can't see how it'd hurt.
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3 comments:

  1. Eck!2/26/2013 7:45 PM

    Well, since we can't have the news stand down with their cameras there is an alternate choice...

    Use the cameras images like any employer does, namely to insure their employees are in their seats doing their expected tasks. Or not off in the bathroom, out smoking, or partying with the
    help.

    When you add the usual keyloggers and other screening systems like what web sites they visit
    they then can make the con-critters, sena-sitters
    feel at home with us peons.




    Eck!

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  2. dinthebeast2/27/2013 2:29 AM

    Ticks are arachnids...

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  3. Marc2/27/2013 8:35 AM

    Per the comments by Eck!, we're under camera when we shop, where we work, and in some neighborhoods. If we have to endure it, they have to endure it. I'd love for all of 'em to get random drug testing, yearly DMV record checks, and a few other background checks (financial, law enforcement, etc) done as part of their employment requirements. Plus, instead of just being voted out of office, this stuff could remove them too. I'm sure it would go over well with the the 99% (or 47% depending who you're talking to...).

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